ALIENS

Written and performed by Marta McIlduff and Alessandra Celesia

Directed by Emily Mytton

Original music composed and performed live by Corgiat

Video editing Piero Oronzo

Lighting design Rocco Andreacchio

Technical Manager on tour Gearóid O’ Hallmhuráin

Producer & Subtitles Coordinator Elisabetta Scarin

Alessandra Celesia – Writer / Performer / Artistic Director

Alessandra Celesia is an Italian theatre-maker, documentary filmmaker and Artistic Director of Curious Industries. Trained at the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris, she has collaborated with companies including Teatro del Silencio, Dumbworld and Kabosh. Her work moves fluidly between documentary cinema and live performance, often combining both forms. Her latest feature, The Flats, won Best Film at CPH:DOX, Best Irish Documentary at Docs Ireland and the George Morrison Award for Best Feature Documentary at the IFTA Awards 2025.

Marta McIlduff – Writer / Performer

Marta McIlduff is a multidisciplinary theatre-maker, performer and writer from Belfast, raised between France and Italy. She trained at the Jacques Lecoq theatre school and with Philippe Gaulier. Her work combines documentary theatre, music and visual storytelling, exploring migration, queerness and fish. Her first show Ligne 13, produced by Curious Industries, explored queerness and identity through the prism of the Parisian metro. Her new project Udite Amanti is supported by the PanPan International Mentorship and will be presented at the Dublin Theatre Festival 2026. She was selected for the Northern Ireland Office’s 21 Artists for the 21st Century programme.

Giovanni Corgiat Mecio – Composer

Italian composer and sound artist Giovanni Corgiat Mecio combines electronic music, classical composition and audiovisual installation. A graduate of the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Turin, he has also trained in sound engineering and music production, developing a practice that bridges technology and live performance. He has composed for theatre, film and exhibitions, including the Netflix series Il Caso Alex Schwazer and the exhibition Into the Mind of Artificial Intelligence at the Leonardo da Vinci Museum in Milan. His music creates immersive sound worlds that combine technical precision with emotional depth.

Emily Mytton – Director

Emily Mytton is a London-based director, writer and performer. After training at Jacques Lecoq, she has worked extensively with the National Theatre, Young Vic, Almeida, Royal Shakespeare Company and Punchdrunk. Her work spans theatre, immersive performance, movement direction and live film, including The Third Day – Autumn, nominated for multiple awards including a BAFTA. Having first worked with Alessandra Celesia after training at Jacques Lecoq, she reunites with her on ALIENS.

Elisabetta Scarin – Producer & Subtitles Coordinator

Elisabetta Scarin is an Italian producer, touring manager and subtitles coordinator based in France. Since 2010 she has produced and toured contemporary theatre, dance and music internationally, working with companies and organisations including Quaternaire, Pensée Visible and Full Rhizome, and supporting the international touring of artists such as Akram Khan Company, Brokentalkers, Handspring Puppet Company and William Kentridge. She has also created subtitles for productions by Romeo Castellucci, Emma Dante, Forced Entertainment and Simon McBurney. She is Producer and Touring Manager for Curious Industries, where she coordinates production, touring and international development. For ALIENS, she also created the subtitles and operates them live on tour.

An “ambitious, memorable piece that treats familiar themes in new, even alien ways.” – Irish Times

“From the story of the Morelli brothers, who grew up during the Second World War estranged from each other, one in Nothern Ireland one in Italy, and whose story opens the show, to the mother-daughter pair of writer-performers Alessandra Celesia and Marta McIlduff, we are constantly called to question what it is that holds people together, and how they get apart.” – The Review Hub

“A journey where each of us might recognise something of ourselves – because at one point or another, we’ve all felt like aliens.” – ilteatrocheverra.it

A co-production by Curious Industries & Dumbworld.

Created with the financial support of the Autonomous Region of Valle d’Aosta (Italy).

Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

ALIENS Autumn 2026 Irish Tour is funded by the Arts Council Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.